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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Trevin Chow <tmchow@sfu.ca>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Can't upgrade sendmail from ports
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Pine expects sendmail to be in a certain location.  You should update
sendmail-path in your .pinerc (or /usr/local/etc/pine.conf to be your new
path for sendmail (something like /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -oem -t -oi).

Joe


On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Trevin Chow wrote:

> Okay, I just tried installing sendmail from the ports to the latest
> version due to that security bulletin that was released a few days ago.
>
> Compile and install seemed to go fine. I updated /etc/mail/mailer.conf to
> reflect the new sendmail binary.  I moved the original
> sendmail binary from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail.old to check
> that everything was working.
>
> I started up pine and tried composing an email to myself, but I get an
> error when it tries to send saying it can't find /usr/sbin/sendmail.  It's
> trying to use the old binary instead of the new one at
> /usr/local/sbin/sendmail.
>
> I thought updating /etc/mail/mailer.conf was enough to tell the system the
> location of the sendmail binary to use?
>
>
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